WHAT'S NEW

DCA is pleased to announce that Pittwater City Council has gone live on the Council's website with the innovative PinForce Images Online module that allows members of the public to check the veracity of parking tickets.

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A new national information system to support the delivery of care to people suffering from dementia will be implemented in all states and terrtories during 2010. DCA been contracted by Alzheimer's Australia to implement tcm 7 as a national database, including migration of data from the existing application.

"What we have embarked upon will change the client experience, deliver more client time and provide a foundation for future national collaboration and unity", said Roger Parenzee, project manager for the Alzheimer's Australia project.

The new application will support service specific dementia assessment, management of individual and group services, and incorporate a new national dementia reporting system.

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) is the new Federal Government department which from 1st July 2010 will administer the registration and accreditation of health practitioners in Australia.

DCA has been engaged to provide the data migration services to take the information of the initial 10 professions and to cleanse, merge, deduplicate, and upload the data into the new AHPRA registration management system.

The 10 professions which will initially be moved to the new AHPRA system are: medical practitioners; nurses and midwives; pharmacists; physiotherapists; podiatrists; psychologists; osteopaths; chiropractors; optometrists; and dentists. The data migration process started in November 2009 and will be completed by 30 June 2010.